Healthy Celeb Inspiration: Alanis Morissette

Today’s healthy celeb inspiration is from Alanis Morissette, via Ecorazzi.com and Runner’s World:

“Kale is my best friend. I eat kale salad. I put kale in my smoothies, kale in my soup. Kale, kale, kale!I feel like Popeye. I love it. I definitely need variety or I get super bored, so I have to mix it up with different sauces and tahini or whatever.”

Mineral-rich and packed with antioxidants, kale is a great veggie choice. Take a hint from Alanis and add some to your diet today!

We also love hearing how Alanis’ yoga practice helps her running:

“Yoga completely opens up my hips and stretches my hip flexors and my quads and my hamstrings, and the practice itself helps me be super present and vigilant and caring. I remember doing one yoga class and the next morning doing a half marathon and I just flew through it. Yoga really just loosens everything up and takes care of any of the cricks and tightness for me.”

Alanis’ diet and fitness are a particular inspiration, given her experience with eating disorders:

“I struggled with eating disorders, especially in my teen years, and food addiction and eating emotionally. I’ve had a relationship with all of that myself…And I have noticed when I treat my body like an instrument instead of an ornament, my relationship with food completely changes because I view food as this really romantic fuel. I certainly want to enjoy my food, but I see it more like fuel that I happen to enjoy versus just a way for me to numb out my feelings or to downward spiral into being addicted to food.”

Thanks for the inspiration, Alanis!

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